DEFIANT BRASILIA
Avenida Brasília Formosa
Synopsis
A poor district in the Brazilian city of Recife has been changing since the construction of a new motorway. How do the local inhabitants experience life and what do they dream about? Mixing fiction and documentary, the inhabitants play themselves in stories of their lives racing past each other.
Synopsis
A poor district in the Brazilian city of Recife has been changing since the construction of a new motorway. How do the local inhabitants experience life and what do they dream about? Mixing fiction and documentary, the inhabitants play themselves in stories of their lives racing past each other.
Our take
Weaving together a web of encounters, memories, and desires, while weaving between fictional and documentary modes, this defiant documentary from Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro (Neon Bull, Divino Amor) looks at the urban reality of a neighborhood stirred by recent—and drastic—transformations.